Friday, July 29, 2011

Nude Picture -- Courtesy of Google Fast Flip

I had a surprise waiting for me earlier today when I was using the Google "Fast Flip" utility earlier today. For those of you that don't know, Google has a utility in its news section called Google Fast Flip that lets users to rapidly flip through the front pages of several news sites in order to check out the latest and greatest that the internet news sites have to offer.

To my surprise, I found the following image on one of the Fast Flip pages.

In keeping with my personal policy of not putting nude photos on my blog, I have blurred out the, er, pertinent parts of the picture for my younger readers. But, I assure you that, under those black squares, there is nothing there. For those of you who need proof, check out the original image here.

To me something like this isn't a big deal. I've seen naked girls before and, god willing, I will see even more before I die. However, it might be a shock to some users of Google Fast Flip that are less comfortable with nudity. Also, I'm not sure that Google censors the flip results with a filter, like they would most of the search results.